12 Fortresses & Strongholds Map Set

What is a King without a Kingdom? What is a Kingdom without a Castle? And what is Castle without Fortifications, Secret Rooms, and strongly protected Treasure Vault or two?

This map Set explores those questions and others with 12 Mighty Fortresses & Strongholds! (A total of 16 printable maps, 8x11 inches in size.) At the end of a lonely road stands a mighty Fortress silently waiting to be explored by brave adventurers. Are the occupants friendly, hostile or shy? Will they lower the drawbridge as you approach and greet you with open arms? Or will they cry "HAVOC"! And let slip the dogs of war as they rain showers of arrows upon your heads from those tall and foreboding towers?

The Fortresses & Strongholds Map Set contains 12 highly detailed floor plans of Forts, Castles, Keeps, Strongholds and Vaults. 8.5x11 inch printable eBook pages display a great overview of their towers, moats, catapults and other battlements that will allow the game master and players to see at a glance various buildings including inns, shops, temples, and guard houses. Written descriptions become optional since you can easily see and thus describe what is in every building. This set of maps includes details such as torches, beds, tables, chairs, fireplaces, statues, thrones and of course, the most important thing - TREASURE chests!

As for the race, class, gender and disposition of the occupants inside that is for you as game master to decide. You can tailor each castle and it occupants to suit your own world and/or campaign. These castles can be used as dungeons to challenge adventurers, or you may choose to incorporate them into your NPC world and give your adventurers a place to rest, recover and train after their battles. Of course, should an adventurer choose to build a keep, or perhaps win one in a card game - you will instantly have one to give them.

This is a SSD universal map set and is suitable for use with any fantasy role-playing game system that uses medieval style buildings for structures. However you choose to use The Fortress & Strongholds Map Set - it is likely to provide you and your players with Hours of Entertainment, and SAVE you hours of Tedious map making. You can spend the extra time you save focusing on the more enjoyable aspects of fantasy role-playing, such as actually PLAYING the game. :))

I just thought I might chime in here. I am an old school gamer. I have been playing D&D, GURPS, RoleMaster, and WarHammer since the mid 80s. I got these maps. I printed them out. They look sharp. The most detailed I have ever seen at this sc [...]

12 Fortresses and Strongholds Map Set is a 22 page pdf product featuring more than a dozen maps suitable for any fantasy campaign setting. This product is one of several map sets presented by The Stainless Steel Dragon, although one of the first to app [...]

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